Bah you beat me to it. I was just debugging an openid extension I wrote
based on the openid patch. Hehe. I will check it out and let you know
how it goes.
Pat
>> Evan Prodromou <evan(a)prodromou.name>
7/25/2006 12:03 PM >>>
Hi, all. I wanted to let everyone know that I've
checked in an OpenID
extension into MediaWiki Subversion (in extensions/OpenID).
The extension lets users log in with an OpenID
(
http://www.openid.net/)
instead of a username and password. An OpenID is a special URL that
people can use to log in to a Web site. The extension also lets users
who have an account on the wiki log in to other OpenID-aware Web sites
with their wiki user page as their OpenID.
Typical uses:
* Single-signon between multiple affiliated wikis and other
sites.
We have 12 wikis that work together for Wikitravel, and users
can login to different Wikitravel wikis with their home wiki
account.
* Single-signon across the Internet. OpenID isn't that well
known
''yet'', but theoretically someone could login to their OpenID
identity server in the morning and not have to login to
another
site for the rest of the day.
I know that Wikimedia developers have some plans for single-signon
between WM sites; this extension would allow single-signon for
contributors to log into external sites like Wikia, WikiHow,
Wikitravel,
and other MediaWiki installations, as well as OpenID-aware services
like
LiveJournal and Moveable Type. And, of course, vice versa.
Please let me know if you a) install this software and b) get any
problems. I'd especially appreciate work on the UI layout, which is a
little klunky. I'd also love to get some acceptance criteria for
installation on Wikimedia sites. I plan on hacking on this quite a bit
between now and Hacking Days at Wikimania.
~Evan
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